The Scottish Government has accused Glasgow City Council of providing "unclear" information about combustible cladding found on private residential flats in the city.

A total of 57 addreses, which may contain numerous households, have been identified by the local authority of having the same type of cladding, aluminium composite material (ACM), which was fitted to Grenfell Tower in London.

The government said the information provided to it was so poor they would not be able to provide "public reassurance" about the safety of the materials.

An audit of flats in Scotland was ordered after the Grenfell Tower fire killed up to 80 people in June.

The widespread existence of ACM in the city came to light after the council's assistant head of planning and building standards, Raymond Barlow, told MSPs at a Holyrood committee on Wednesday about the discovery but refused to give any further details about it.

Following Mr Barlow's appearance, local government and housing minister Kevin Stewart has written to the committee's convener complaining about the standard of information supplied to the devolved government by council officials.

A series of correspondence between government and city council officials were also released as part of Stewart's letter to the committee convener.

Some of the 57 buildings have ACM in panels between windows while some appear to have it on entire storeys, according to a table inside one of the emails sent by Mr Barlow to the government.

"Inspection of this information showed that several key components of the information requested were missing or unclear," states Stewart.

"For example: the table indicated the presence of some buildings where composite cladding had been identified but it was not clear whether it was ACM or not.

"In other cases the information suggested that for some buildings the plans had not been retrieved so it was not clear whether ACM was present or not.

"And in others, where the table indicated that ACM was present the extent of its use was not clear (eg. whether it was isolated panels, partial elevation or complete elevation) or the type of ACM was not specified."

The Scottish Government offered to assist the council in its audit of private buildings twice before they finally accepted help yesterday after the matter became public knowledge.

STV News has contacted Glasgow City Council for a response to Stewart's comments.